By Katharine Charsley, University of Bristol and Helena Wray, University of Exeter via The Conversation,
The government has announced a host of new restrictions aimed at cutting net migration to the UK. Headline announcements include increasing the salary requirements for skilled foreign workers from £26,200 to £38,700, and banning health and care workers from bringing family dependants to…
We are seeing an increasing number of companies applying for a Home Office sponsor licence to sponsor and employ migrant workers from both EU and non-EU countries. At the end of 2023's first quarter, the number of organisations on the UK's register of work sponsors reached 61,153. Compare…
NC v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 1379 (22 November 2023)
The Court of Appeal has held that the First-tier Tribunal had erred in its application of the "very significant obstacles to integration" test set out in paragraph 276ADE(1)(vi) of the Immigration…
Net migration, in very simple terms, is the difference between the number of those coming and leaving country as against the residual population. The calculation is much more complex than that.
The Telegraph this morning reports on the existential pressure on the Government over this…
R ((AAA) Syria and Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] UKSC 42
The Government's flagship policy of removing individual asylum seekers to Rwanda for their claims to be decided under the Rwandan asylum system that was announced on 14th April 2022 has been found to be…
By Devyani Prabhat, University of Bristol, via The Conversation,
The UK supreme court has unanimously ruled that the government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful.
Upholding an earlier decision by the court of appeal, the supreme court found that asylum seekers sent to Rwanda may be at risk of refoulement – being sent back to a…
By Krish Kandiah, Sanctuary Foundation, via Forced Migration Review,
Tens of thousands of people in the UK have opened their homes to Ukrainians. An examination of this historic welcome offers important insights for future schemes aimed at helping refugee groups and vulnerable people.
After the invasion of Ukraine, the UK was at the forefront of countries…
[Update by EIN, 18 January 2024: The Immigration (Health Charge) (Amendment) Order 2024 was made on 16th January 2024 and comes into force 21 days later, which means that the Immigration Health Surcharge will increase on 6th February 2024]
Draft statutory instrument now laid before…
By Thomas McGee, PhD researcher at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness (Melbourne Law School),
This blog post introduces new research, conducted as part of the #StatelessJourneys project, into the challenges faced by stateless claimants within asylum procedures in the UK context. The study focuses on the experiences of stateless Kurds from Syria in the UK, revealing hurdles related…
Under legal pressure, the UK government has reversed its policy requiring at-risk Afghans seeking relocation to the UK to first obtain suitable accommodation. This post outlines the background and provides an overview of the current legal challenges afoot.
This post provides an update on…
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